HueComb

Hidden Valley

#689938

A green that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#689938

RGB

104, 153, 56

OKLCh

62.7% 0.138 132.0°

CIELAB (D50)

58.2, -29.5, 43.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.2; on black, Lc -40.5. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 12.0 and 11.7 and 50.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.39:1 — large text only

Black text

6.20:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.20:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#54831f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#689938

protanopia

#949437 · ΔE00 12.0

deuteranopia

#8d8d3b · ΔE00 11.7

tritanopia

#8484c9 · ΔE00 50.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRadiant Foliage at ΔE00 1.23: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.